The secret of what we do with this spread attack is that you have to be able to run the ball. It (also) helps if your quarterback can run a little.

By the time Allen read 'Howl' -- and when Snyder then read 'The Berry Feast,' the first deep-ecology poem -- we felt that a body had been thrown against the barricades.

We all had our foot on the line. We all believed in that line and none of us have gone back.

Allen and I were wallflowers among the lordly and academic figures.

In the age where the eight-cylinder Buick, the grey flannel suit and the tract home represented wholesomeness, ... Semina was the ultimate unwholesome object, and we gloried in it.